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To be clear, while the article says this is "official support", this is only drivers provided by valve.

Per valve:

We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support.

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Blech! Why would somebody sully such a wonderful device with a piss patty OS?

[–] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I could imagine that games with invasive anti cheats are a reason.

As someone who played a couple, i just stopped playing them.

I'm a little sad they did this, i hoped that the pressure on the game devs would rise so they support Linux, oh well.

[–] andreluis034@bookwormstory.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Personally, I think this is great because I can now use my game pass subscription on the steam deck, I know I could use the cloud functionality on steamos, but it is not the same.

This limitation made be realize the vendor lock-in that game pass is, sure it provides awesome value, but forces you to have windows or buy an Xbox.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why did you subscribe to services you couldn't use?

I only bought a steam deck recently, when I subscribed for 3 years, I mostly gamed on Windows or on my Xbox.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

True, still a little salty I had to cancel the subscription, I genuinely liked it. But I'm not installing Windows.

[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] andreluis034@bookwormstory.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Did you actually watch the video and/or read what I said? I want to be able to play the games locally, not from the cloud.

[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I guess I skimmed over ur comment. I definitely watched the video tho lol